Hardware going soft?

[bipper]

Haven't seen you around for a bit.

Blame WoW , My tunneling machine [at home] was down atm, so at work - I work Plan on seeing me a bit more now though.

Anways, back to the problem - Removing the fan seemed to help a bit, but it still flickers. The video card does get HOT! But from my experience, when a video card starts to go, it causes more havok than just a flickering screen.

Without having parts to swap out atm, it's gonna be fun. This was happening fairly frequently about a month ago, then I just dusted the hell out of the box, and it seemed to offer a temporary remedy. Still, no luck I finding the bad hardware.


Bipper

EDIT [FIXED] I got the problem fixed. I started getting blue screens on boot and other behavior issues as well. With the new job, it took me a while to find time to buckle down and fix the computer, but I got-r-done *cough*. There was a wad of lint stuck on the heatsync... After removing that, and adding some good silver heatsync, she runs perfectly now. I honestly figured that overheating the processor area would cause the board to shut down, not flicker /shrug oh well - *happy end*